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  • 40 Under 40: Ilya Shmidt

    by Patrick Wagner July 21, 2025
    July 21, 2025

    As the vice president of sales and retail operations at The Flowery, Ilya Shmidt has both his hands full.

    On the one hand, he’s continuing to build the company’s dispensary footprint in Florida, the largest medical-only market in the country, while simultaneously establishing the brand in New York, easily the fastest growing adult-use market in the nation. The two states could not be any different in terms of regulations, licensing models or political climates.

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  • 40 Under 40: Jordan Mackenzie and Michael Whittaker

    by Patrick Wagner July 18, 2025
    July 18, 2025

    At 23, Michael Whittaker was living a double life. He was working as a police cadet, studying criminal justice and, at the same time, secretly participating in the illicit cannabis market with his wife, Jordan Mackenzie Whittaker.

    “When it came down to it, I was like, ‘This ain’t for me,” he says of his short-lived career in law enforcement. “I’m going all in with the plant and see where it takes me.”

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  • 40 Under 40: John Shute

    by Patrick Wagner July 17, 2025
    July 17, 2025

    After numerous awards and hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to charities, PufCreative CEO John Shute seemingly surprised himself when discussing his personal career milestones.

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  • 40 Under 40: Jeremy Berke

    by Patrick Wagner July 16, 2025
    July 16, 2025

    When Jeremy Berke left Business Insider at the end of 2022, he didn’t necessarily intend on launching his own media company.
    But with a handful of unpublished story ideas on his mind, he started a Substack newsletter to keep himself busy before starting graduate school. Eventually, with some persuasion from business partner Jay Rosenthal, Cultivated Media became a full-scale media business in November 2023.

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  • 40 Under 40: Jay Wright

    by Patrick Wagner July 15, 2025
    July 15, 2025

    Jay Wright has lofty goals for Little Beach Harvest as a business venture, but he also believes the tribally owned cannabis company can be a cultural inspiration and a force for further destigmatizing cannabis.

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  • The Secret to Perfect Cannabis Growth: Temperature Control

    by Patrick Wagner July 14, 2025
    July 14, 2025

    Temperature management is one of the most powerful tools in a grower’s arsenal when it comes to maximizing both yield and potency in cannabis.

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  • 40 Under 40: Jake Granger

    by Patrick Wagner July 14, 2025
    July 14, 2025

    Jake Granger can take some credit for bringing delivery to Oregon’s legal cannabis industry. After operating a successful cannabis delivery company in San Diego, Granger headed to Portland, Oregon, to recreate the business as Potland, using a loophole in the regulations specifying that dispensaries that are open to the public had to be at least 1,000 feet apart.

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  • 40 Under 40: Harrison Bard and Fredrik Rading

    by Patrick Wagner July 10, 2025
    July 10, 2025

    Custom Cones USA was an unexpected, runaway success for co-founders Harrison Bard and Fredrik Rading. The wildly successful Washington-based rolling paper company ships throughout the United States and 47 other countries, serving about 18,000 clients that range from head shops to the Jordanian military.

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  • 40 Under 40: Gary Perry

    by Patrick Wagner July 9, 2025
    July 9, 2025

    Gary Perry was climbing the cannabis industry ladder when he realized the culture had much more to offer than just cannabis.

    “There had to be something more than just industry,” he says.

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  • 40 Under 40: Cristy Aranguiz

    by Patrick Wagner July 8, 2025
    July 8, 2025

    Cristy Aranguiz is somewhat peerless in the cannabis industry. As CEO of Cannabis & Glass, she has helped build the company from a single store into a thriving multi-state operation with three retail locations in Washington, one in Oregon, another three in Iowa (under the brand Iowa Cannabis). 

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